What rapper has the best mixtapes?

In homage to that era, here are the Top 10 Mixtapes Of All Time!

• Meek Mill, Dreamchasers 2.
• ASAP Rocky, Love Live A$AP.
• Chance The Rapper, Acid Rap.
• Drake, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late.
• Kendrick Lamar, O. Verly D.
• Childish Gambino, Royalty.
• J. Cole, Friday Night Lights.
• Lil Wayne, Da Drought 3 (Disc 1) / No Ceilings.

Who made mixtapes popular?

In hip hop Hip hop mixtapes first appeared in the mid-1970s in New York City, featuring artists such as Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa. In the mid-1980s, DJs, such as Brucie B, began recording their live music and selling them as mixtapes, which was soon followed by other DJs, like Kid Capri and Doo Wop.

What is the most downloaded mixtape ever?

Dreamchasers 2 by Meek Mill. Downloads: 4,916,520.

Who is the world’s best rapper?

The 10 Best Rappers of All Time

• Eminem.
• Rakim.
• Nas.
• Andre 3000.
• Lauryn Hill.
• Ghostface Killah.
• Kendrick Lamar.
• Lil Wayne. Lil Wayne’s commercial success speaks for itself — just ask Elvis, whom Weezy surpassed three years ago as the artist with the most Billboard Hot 100 hits of all time.

Who was the first rapper to release a mixtape?

And this year, Chance the Rapper released 14 sleek tracks with Kanye West and Lil Wayne cameos that he called a “mixtape,” and it debuted with the backing of Apple. So there was only one hard-and-fast rule to make our cut: a “mixtape” was a free release, offered directly to rap fans.

What was the Best Rap Mixtape of the Millennium?

The context of a release, both within an artist’s own career and within rap at large, mattered to us, as did replayability: The best mixtapes of the millennium double as some of the era’s best long-playing rap albums, because the distinction between the two has all but been erased. We hope you enjoy reading and debating as much as we did.

Which is the best mixtape of all time?

The Street Album was the highest-profile mixtape in the build-up to Jacka’s ambitious Tear Gas LP. It nearly equals that album’s diverse ambition, although it does so with a less polished, more hood-oriented sound.

What was the purpose of a mixtape in 2000?

In assembling this list, we asked the question again and again, partly because rap continues to redefine the term. In 2000, mixtapes were generally still piles of exclusive freestyles sequenced by enterprising DJs like DJ Clue–they were promotional tools, pure and simple.